Corel LINUX x86 ver 1.2 Released on July 14, 2000 The contents of this CD-ROM are Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Corel Corporation and others. Please see the individual copyright notices in each source package for specific license terms. For source code, please go to ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/linux/CorelLinux Table of Contents ================= A. Directory Structure of CD-ROM B. Installing Corel LINUX C. Upgrading Corel LINUX D. Creating a Boot Diskette E. How to access a rescue disc F. Sound related topics for Corel LINUX i) First time sound configuration in the Deluxe Version ii) First time sound configuration in the Standard Version iii) First time sound configuration in the Open Circulation Version iv) Configuring a SoundBlaster Live sound card v) Configuring Sound in Deluxe version after Upgrade vi) Configuring Sound in Standard and Open Circulation versions after Upgrade vii) Configuring XMMS in Deluxe version after Upgrade G. Root access is required after an Upgrade H. Automatic power management stops installation I. IP address change not reflected in Network Control Panel J. NFS Sharing requires net mask K. System slow to boot up L. Running Corel Applications on LINUX M. Running the Bridges Client N. Completing the Citrix Installation O. Hardware Issues P. DHCP Q. Parallel port ZIP drive support A. Directory Structure of CD-ROM -------------------------------- The Directory structure is as follows. Boot - Boot catalogue and boot diskette image Dists - Distribution directory structure Live - Setup directory Rr_moved Tools - DOS, and rescue tools Autorun.exe - Windows Autorun file Autorun.ico Autorun.inf Bb.bat - Used by Autorun to format floppies Readme.txt - This file B. Installing Corel LINUX ------------------------- Corel LINUX ver 1.2 must be installed from a CDROM. If you downloaded the Corel LINUX Open Circulation ISO disc image, you must burn it to a CD to be able to install it. The Corel LINUX CD is bootable. If your computer supports bootable CD's, put the CD in the drive, and restart the system to begin Corel Install Express. Check the documentation for your system to see if your computer's BIOS supports this feature. If your computer can not boot from CD, you need to start Corel Install Express from a boot floppy. If you have Corel LINUX Standard or Deluxe, a boot floppy is provided in the box. If you downloaded Corel LINUX or received it from a different source, you need to make a boot floppy diskette. See the following instructions on Creating a Boot Diskette. C. Upgrading Corel LINUX ------------------------ Upgrading Corel LINUX from Versions 1.0 or 1.1 to Corel LINUX 1.2 should be completed using the upgrade option in Corel Install Express. D. Creating a Boot Diskette --------------------------- Corel LINUX does not support booting from 5.25" floppy diskettes so you must have a 3.5" floppy drive as your A: drive. Creating a boot floppy diskette from Windows 1. Insert the Corel LINUX CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. 2. The Corel LINUX Autorun should start. If it does not start automatically, double click "My Computer" on your desktop or in Windows Explorer and click on the CD-ROM drive. Double click Autorun.exe. 3. On the splash screen, click the Next button. 4. Select Floppy diskette and click the Next button. 5. Click the Create Floppy button. 6. Insert a formatted floppy disk into the floppy drive and click OK. 7. The Boot floppy creation process is finished when the dialog disappears. 8. Close all Windows applications and click the Restart button to reboot your machine from the new boot floppy. Note: if the boot floppy creation process fails, format the floppy first in Windows Explorer. Creating a boot floppy diskette on a Linux machine 1. Login as root. 2. Mount your CD-ROM by typing the following at a command prompt: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom 3. Insert a blank floppy diskette into the floppy drive. 4. Type: dd if=/mnt/cdrom/boot/boot1440.img of=/dev/fd0 and press enter. E. How to access a rescue disc ------------------------------ If you are having difficulties with your system and you are a knowledgeable Linux user, you can use the Corel LINUX CD as a rescue disk. 1. Place the CD in the CDROM drive (and the boot diskette if necessary). 2. Reboot your system. 3. When the first splash screen appears, press and hold the Shift key for about a second, then let go. 4. Select Rescue Console and press Enter. F. Sound Related Topics for Corel LINUX i) First time sound configuration in the Deluxe Version ------------------------------------------------------- After you install Corel LINUX, you can configure the 4Front Technologies OSS sound drivers. Click Application Starter, Applications, Multimedia, OSS Configuration and follow the directions in the OSS Configuration utility. ii) First time sound configuration in the Standard Version ----------------------------------------- After you install Corel LINUX, you can configure the standard sound drivers. 1. Click Application Starter, Run. 2. Enable Run in terminal window. 3. Type sndconfig and click OK. 4. Follow the directions provided by the sndconfig utility. 5. If your sound card is an ISA bus card, you need to shut down and reboot your system. iii) First time sound configuration in the Open Circulation Version ----------------------------------------------- Follow the directions for the Corel LINUX Standard version. iv) Configuring a SoundBlaster Live sound card ---------------------------------------------- If you have a SoundBlaster Live sound card, you need to install the support module for it separately. To install the SoundBlaster Live module: 1. Click the Application Starter, Applications, System, Corel Update. 2. When prompted, type the root password for your system. 3. Click Options, Set File Sources. 4. Enable Corel LINUX CD-ROM, disable the other two options and click OK. 5. Click File, Update Profile. 6. Select the Available Software tab. 7. Locate the Sound section in the list. 8. Click the + sign to display all sound related packages. 9. Click the "X" beside the package name to change it to the double arrow symbol. 10. Click File, Upgrade/Install Packages. 11. Do the steps described in First time sound configuration in the Standard Version. v) Configuring Sound in Deluxe version after Upgrade ---------------------------------------------------- You must re-run the 4Front technology configuration utility after you've updated your system in order to re- enable sound support. 1. Log in to your machine as root. 2. Click the Application Starter, Applications, Multimedia, OSS Configuration. 3. Follow the directions in the OSS Configuration program. 4. Press the Tab key to switch between fields in the OSS configuration utility. vi) Configuring Sound in Standard and Open Circulation versions after Upgrade ------------------------------------------------------ If you are updating an existing Corel LINUX OS Standard or Open Circulation version, you must reconfigure your sound card after installation. Follow the procedure described in "First time sound configuration in the Standard Version". vii) Configuring XMMS in Deluxe version after Upgrade ----------------------------------------------------- After updating Corel LINUX Deluxe version, If XMMS doesn't play, you may need to make a minor update to the preferences of XMMS. 1. Click Application Starter, Applications, Multimedia, XMMS. 2. Right click and hold the mouse down on the XMMS application to display the application's menu. 3. Select Options, Preferences. 4. Locate the Output Plugin section. 5. Select OSS Driver 1.0.1 [libOSS.so] from the dropdown list. 6. Click OK. G. Root access is required after an Upgrade ------------------------------------------- If you've upgraded your Corel LINUX OS from versions 1.0 or 1.1, you are prompted for your system's root password after the files are installed on your system and before the automatic configuration steps can be started. H. Automatic power management stops installation ------------------------------------------------ If you are installing on a machine which has automatic power management (probably a laptop), the machine may go to sleep before Install Express finishes. Disable automatic power management in your systems BIOS or monitor the system during the installation to make sure the machine doesn't go to sleep before completing the installation. I. IP address change not reflected in Network Control Panel ----------------------------------------------------------- If you modify the systems IP address from a system console, (for example using '/etc/init.d/dhcpcd start eth0') the Network Control Panel does not show the new IP address. Network Control Panel displays the settings contained in /etc/network.conf. J. NFS Sharing requires net mask -------------------------------- If you are using Corel File Manager to share directories over an NFS network, you need to include a net mask after the Host name of the machine you want to provide access to. For example: the Host field would contain "120.2.1.2/255.255.255.255" to provide access to only the machine with an IP address of 120.2.1.2. Or, the Host field would contain "120.0.0.0/255.0.0.0" if you want to provide access to all machines on the network with IP addresses starting with 120. K. System slow to boot up ------------------------- If your system's network TCP/IP settings are set to DHCP but your computer is not connected to a network, the system will pause during boot up. To reduce the boot time, change your TCP/IP settings in the Control Center to Static or make sure your system's network card is connected to the network before booting. L. Running Corel Applications on LINUX -------------------------------------- If you have installed Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 for LINUX, Corel Draw for Linux or Corel PHOTO-PAINT 9 for LINUX, you may need to install a new version of Wine in order for WordPerfect Office 2000 for LINUX to function properly with the newer version of the Fontastic font server included in Corel PHOTO-PAINT 9 for LINUX. When Corel PHOTO-PAINT 9 for LINUX is launched, a check is made and a warning is displayed if you need to upgrade your copy of Wine. If the warning is not displayed, you do not need to upgrade your copy of Wine. If an upgrade is required, you will be given the option of running a script to perform the upgrade. If the automated script fails or you wish to perform the upgrade manually, you need to install the package wine-wpo2000-glibc-2.1 (for glibc 2.1-based systems) from the Corel PHOTO-PAINT 9 Installation CD. For more detailed information on these issues, refer to the Release Notes in the Application Starter, Applications, Corel Graphics 9, Utilities. M. Running the Bridges Client ----------------------------- If you have installed the Bridges Client from the Application CD, supplied with the Deluxe version of Corel LINUX OS, the kmenu icon will not launch without modification. Bridges requires the user to specify a hostname to connect to, in order for the kmenu icon to work, the user must modify the entry as follows: 1. Login as root. 2. Select Application Starter > Applications > System. 3. Right Click the GraphOn Bridges icon and select Properties. 4. Select the Execute tab. 5. In the Execute text box, enter "-h " at end of command line. ie. /usr/bin/bridges -h bridges_server 6. Click OK. N. Completing the Citrix Installation -------------------------------------- If you have installed the Citrix Client from the Application CD, supplied with the Deluxe version of Corel LINUX OS, there is a final stage of installation the the user needs to complete. All of the setup files have been installed to '/opt/citrix3', you need to complete the following instructions to finish the installation: 1. Login as root. 2. Lauch the Corel File Manager, and Browse to '/opt/citrix' by selecting, in the tree view, 'The System > / > opt > citrix3'. 3. Double click on the file 'linux.tar.gz', this will open the Archive Adminstrator. 4. Extract all files into the directory '/opt/citrix3/'. 5. Double click on the 'setupwfc' file, and follow the instructions. 6. Follow instructions Choose 1 to install Answer questions Choose 3 to exit after installation 7. If default installation directory was choosen, go to directory /usr/lib/ICAClient 8. Run wfcmgr to start the Citrix manager O. Hardware Issues ------------------ USB Corel Linux OS 1.2 now supports both ohci and uhci USB controllers. All USB devices should now be detected in the Control Center if USB is properly enabled on your system. Please note that although a certain USB device is detected by the OS, support for that device may not exist at this time. If you switch to a USB pointing device from a PS/2 or Serial device, your system will need to be restarted before the device can be used. Iomega Zip and Jaz Drives Support for the Iomega Zip Drive (100/250 MB Parallel, SCSI, IDE/ATAPI, USB) and Iomega Jaz Drive (2GB SCSI) has been added to the Corel File Manager. These devices will automount when a disk is inserted. The Jaz drive will not auto-eject but can be unmounted (using the Eject Zip command in the Right-Mouse-Button menu) and ejected manually. During installation, the detection scripts may cause a parallel-port printer to output a single page if a parallel-port Zip drive is present. PPA Printer Support Printers supported by Corel Linux now include the Hewlett Packard DeskJet 710C, 712C, 720C, 820C, and 1000C. These printers run on a protocol known as the Printing Performance Architecture (PPA) which is essentially a protocol to support host-based printing. Support has been achieved using the opensource pnm2ppa package. More information on this opensource project is available at http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1322 Wacom Tablets Wacom tablets are not supported by default in Corel Linux OS. Support for Wacom tablets can be obtained at the Wacom Xinput Driver for XFree86 page located at http://www.lepied.com/xfree86/ . Please note that if you modify the /etc/X11/XF86Config file to achieve support, your changes will be over-written by the buildxconf configuration file whenever you make a change to X from the Control Center. To preserve your changes to XF69Config, you will also need to include them in /etc/buildxconf.inf. Modifying your XF86Config or buildxconf.inf file may prevent X from starting properly and the user does so at their own risk. PCTEL Soft-Modem Support Support for PCTEL’s HSP56 modem has been added to Corel Linux OS. The pctel_pci.o module supports the PCI card versions of the modem and the pctel_hsp.o module supports the integrated version of the modem. Currently only PCTEL soft-modems are supported by Corel Linux OS. P. DHCP ------- i) If you have changed your network settings from DHCP to Static you must restart apache. ii) When using DHCP, if your IP lease expires during your session the /etc/hosts file is not updated. The update will occur on the next system reboot. Q. Parallel port ZIP drive support ------------------------- To enable parallel port ZIP drive support; at the root shell prompt (console), type: parallel_zip To disable parallel port zip drive support, at the root shell prompt (console), type: parallel_zip disable Parallel port ZIP drive support can causes text to be written to the printer when the computer boots if there is a printer and no ZIP drive. By default, support for parallel port ZIP drives has been disabled.